The award was first presented in 1988.
Ten years after the award was established, a total of 5 male singers have won the award.
They are Cheung Kwok Wing, Jacky Cheung, Li Ming, Aaron Kwok, and Lun Yongliang.
The first four are all emperor superstars, and Lun Yongliang, who is sandwiched among them, looks unremarkable.
But in fact, he is the hero behind the Heavenly King Tianhou.
(Lin Yilian, Lun Yongliang, Guan Shuyi)
A song "Fourth Night Mood" made Aaron Kwok gain a firm foothold in Hong Kong, and he once composed 37 songs for Mui Yanfang, and the song was classic...
He is a good producer and composer, but why can't he be a good singer?
Unlike most of the poor singers in the music scene at that time, Lun Yongliang's family was well-off, with a single ancestral home of 5,000 feet.
Lun Yongliang is the youngest, has seven older brothers and sisters on it, has been very favored since childhood, and was sent to the United States to study after graduating from high school.
He finished high school and college in the United States, obtained a degree in literature, and then went to pursue a master's degree, specializing in classical music.
At that time, his dream was to become the next "godfather of music".
After returning to China, Lun Yongliang went to the major music companies for an interview, but none of them wanted him.
Everyone thinks his profession is not good: "Classical music is all old antiques, and now people hear it as pop music." Can't you take a violin to the subway station and try it? ”
He wasn't convinced, no record label wanted him, he simply made his own album.
In 1986, he produced an album at his own expense, titled "Lun Yongliang Creative Song Collection".
He didn't hire any helpers, and all the composition, arrangement, mixing, recording, and producership on the album were all taken over by himself.
The album is about the "fine music" he learned while studying abroad: rock, electronic, country, black music and Broadway musicals.
It was an experimental and avant-garde album that not many people understood at the time, and sold poorly after its release, selling just over 6,000 copies.
If you only look at the sales, this is undoubtedly a failed album.
In another sense, the album got him more attention.
Among them was Pan Guangpei, who later participated with him in the Asia Pacific Pop Songwriting Competition.
Pan Guangpei was originally a lawyer and signed up for the competition because of his heavy fascination with musical theater.
Lun Yongliang loves to create, but is not good at singing, Pan Guangpei has seen Lun Yongliang's "Song Collection", and feels that he and Lun Yongliang's style are very compatible.
In this way, the two partners participated in this competition.
During the competition, Lun Yongliang sat behind the grand piano in a dress, playing and singing, intoxicated and self-forgetful.
He had confidence in himself in his heart, but he didn't know that his performance had directly reduced the ratings of the TV station to an all-time low.
Such a performance made many citizens who watched the program turn off the TV in fright, including Lin Yilian, who later worked with him for half a lifetime.
If nothing else, this new song he and Pan Guangpei collaborated on, called "Lyrics", is too jumpy for ordinary audiences to enjoy.
Fortunately, although this song does not match the aesthetics of the audience at that time, it is really a solid high-level music.
The judges are very knowledgeable, and Lun Yongliang won the final championship.
At that time, there were Liu Meijun, who later became the queen of the Golden Horse Film, and Huang Kaiqin, a Hong Kong music poet who sang the red "Late Autumn"...
Liu Meijun
Huang Kaiqin
Lun Yongliang stepped on the shoulders of these people to "ascend", which was enough to see its strength.
At that time, Li Xiaotian, a senior executive of Huaxing Records, watched the competition and learned that Lun Yongliang could write and sing, and immediately sent him an invitation.
Lun Yongliang signed Huaxing and officially stepped into the Hong Kong music scene.
After entering Huaxing, his first song was "Shoe Shine Boy" written to Xu Guanjie, and the second song was for Rowan.
Xu Guanjie
Rowan
But writing songs to others all the time didn't fit his plan for himself at the time.
He entered Huaxing to become a singer, he wanted to stand in front of the stage and sing his own songs, so he pushed off other people's invitations and proposed to the company to release his own records.
At this time, something had happened in his family, and he didn't have a few money left in his hand.
Fortunately, at that time, the title of "Original Competition Champion" had not expired, and Huaxing released him an album of the same name, "Lun Yongliang".
Unfortunately, the response to this album was mediocre, only one of the songs, "All My Love", was barely nominated for the Season selection of the Golden Melody Award.
That year was the most popular year of Tan Zhang and Tan Zhang, 1987, and almost all the eyes of the fans were focused on the two of them, and no one paid any attention to the wave thrown by Lun Yongliang.
Huaxing will not always make records for a singer who will not make money.
Lun Yongliang's singer's path is impossible to go on.
He was back in the background, but he was extremely reluctant.
At that time, the fashionable and young Lun Yongliang stubbornly longed for the light in front of the stage.
Until a chance, he met Mei Yanfang.
The first time I met Mei Yanfang was at a Huaxing liquor bureau.
Mei Yanfang watched his radio program, admired his talent, and invited him to sing at the wine table.
At that time, Mui Yanfang had broken the sales record of Hong Kong records for several consecutive years and was a well-deserved diva of the music scene.
Lun Yongliang was flattered, and after returning, he immediately threw himself into the creation.
Among them, three songs were included in Mei Yanfang's seventh album, namely "Charm in the Flyover", "Lonely", and "Blazing Red Lips", which was selected as the main song.
In particular, the song "Blazing Red Lips", with a bold and hot style, shined in the two award ceremonies of the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs" and "Top Ten Golden Songs" that year.
Since then, it has opened a new page for Mei Yanfang's career.
Mei Yanfang praised him and not only invited him to sing, but also invited him to be the executive producer of her own concert.
In the eyes of others, Lun Yongliang became Mei Jie's person.
The fame of composing and arranging music is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people are asking him to sing.
But in addition to Mei Yanfang, Lun Yongliang wrote the most songs for Lin Yilian.
Lin Yilian, who officially entered the music scene in 1985, has always been a young jade woman.
But in that era, the most important thing was the jade girl.
This road did not go out of the name, Lin Yilian decided to transform and change to the urban light mature female route.
It just so happens that Lun Yongliang has both orthodox music training and is influenced by European and American pop music, and has achieved great achievements in R&B, jazz and dance music, and is the best cooperation object in the circle.
In 1987, Lin Yilian and her team found Lun Yongliang.
At that time, Lun Yongliang was writing songs for Mei Jie, and he was wholeheartedly invested in the creation, and he did not want to take on such cooperation.
But after hearing Lin Yilian's appeal of urban Western style, he was a little shaken.
This was undoubtedly a cooperation that was extremely appetizing to him, and on his mind, he agreed.
According to Lin Yilian's request, he first wrote a light jazz style, which was very in line with Lin Yilian's positioning at that time.
But in that era, it was too avant-garde and did not attract much attention.
Writing songs for yourself can be a little more casual, but to others, be responsible.
After that, Lun Yongliang studied Lin Yilian's records and stages more painstakingly.
When composing, the Overly high-end Western elements are reduced, making it more passionate, sexier and more modern.
In 1988, Lin Yilian released a new album "Urban Touch Part 1", the title song "Three More Nights and a Half" is a new dance song created by Lun Yongliang for her.
Lin Yilian's wild and tender style was thus established, and the two became the best partners.
After that, Lun Yongliang made many good songs such as "Burn", "Tilt", "Light Rain Fluttering Paris" and so on, and several follow-up "Urban Touch" were launched one after another, and Lin Yilian's popularity completely exploded in Hong Kong.
Lun Yongliang personally pushed Lin Yilian to the throne of the Queen of Heaven.
And Mei Yanfang's side has not slackened off.
"Leopard of the Night", "A Dance of Love", "Love Me Say Love Me" and many other good songs are blessed, and the ever-changing Mei Yanfang has been undefeated in the Hong Kong music scene.
Looking at the gorgeous and beautiful diva on the stage and listening to the familiar melodies they sang, Lun Yongliang had a great sense of accomplishment.
He also finally understood that his original insistence on becoming a singer was not nostalgic for the stage, but too much love for music.
In front of and behind the scenes, which one is not making songs?
In 1990, he gave himself a copy of "The Man Behind the Piano."
In this album, of the ten songs, Lun Yongliang wrote 7 songs himself, which he wrote specifically for himself.
Lun Yongliang sat behind the piano for almost half his life.
This album, he is to commemorate his mature self.
At the end of the year, in the pop chart of the music scene, he defeated Tan Yonglin and Lin Zixiang in one fell swoop, and won the male singer gold award with "The Man Behind the Piano".
In 1994, he gave concerts in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, where he performed more than 40 concerts and sang with Japanese singer Morime.
At that time, the music scene was still popular, but Lun Yongliang never gave up the elegant Western music he loved, he put his love on the stage, turned his favorite into a song, and sang it to everyone.
There was a double harvest in front of and behind the stage, and just when everyone thought that he would completely walk to the front of the stage, he told everyone with practical actions.
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In the same year, Mei Yanfang released the record "It's Like This", and four of the ten songs were composed by Lun Yongliang.
Later, "Mirror Flower Water Moon" and "Woman Flower" also had Lun Yongliang's participation in the production.
It can be said that Lun Yongliang witnessed the glory and fall of this diva and always followed her.
The two are both partners and friends in life, mutual trust and tacit cooperation in music, and there has been almost no quarrel over the years, but there is only one point, the two always have conflicts.
Mei Yanfang loves to be late too much, and every time the two agree to record a song, when the time comes, Mei Yanfang always can't see the shadow.
Lun Yongliang complained, but it was useless, but Mei Yanfang also educated him with vigor and words: "Ah Liang, to be a big name, you have to be late!" ”
This cooperation has been another decade.
In November 2003, Lun Yongliang supervised eight concerts for the terminally ill Mei Yanfang in the Red Pavilion.
Standing offstage, he watched the woman who had been on the stage all her life say goodbye to the stage.
On December 30, 2003, Mei Yanfang died, outside the ward, Lun Yongliang lamented: "Why don't you continue to be a big name and don't you continue to be late on the last journey of your life?" ”
Since then, Lun Yongliang's personality has changed dramatically.
He began to become silent, did not like to go out, and usually did not have much hobbies except singing and composing music with friends.
He began to play a more listening role in life, and in every silent listening, he knew every friend around him.
Gentle and generous, not good money.
Lun Yongliang used his limited time to pursue unlimited dreams.
In front of and behind the scenes, he has a lifelong love for every note flowing from his fingertips.
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